EPA

The starting party that could make it to the start of the session(Faeth, Niles, Gil, Bobe, and Veeto) introduce themselves with Tea introduced by the dungeon master(Tora) for now.

Veeto- Baron Veeto Von Grindlefoot:

”A deep gnome wizard, probably evil. Probably a necromancer.”

Bobe/Bobe Uto:

”Not exactly a good person” as a shadow sorcerer.

Tea/Theo Tea Myers:

Custom Tabaxi lineage that Tora created.

Gil/Bararandir “Gil” Gildur:

Elf bard who plays the pan flute but is not very good at it. Very happy to be here and optimistic.

Niles/Niles Dexter:

Halfling rogue who is going to be trying to infiltrate things and disguise himself.

Faeth/Feath Wolfe:

Half elf paladin who is lawful good.

All of the characters have been interns at Acquisitions Inc. with one even being stationed at the headquarters. All the characters are given a memo to report to the headquarters for a meeting with the CFO to discuss a very important task they have been handpicked for, which is promised to not be dangerous mostly. The characters arrive at the meeting hall and are greeted by the CTO, named Archebald Round Bottom, who sends them to evaluate a property in order to tell if it’s good for Acquisitions Inc. to hold onto. They all introduce themselves to each other. Gil likes talking, Bobe hasn’t done things above board in a while so decided to try it out, Niles specializes in forging documents and sneaking, Veeto is 215 years old with an ancient lineage from a city around here who is also a wizard that is very good at getting out of trouble, Faeth is a paladin who is good at hitting things and healing things. Gil says he has been working at the head office and can answer any questions about it. The party goes down to the company store and finds it’s full of a bunch of branded merchandise that is very upcharged. Gil searches for a shirt but finds a hot pink one that is too expensive, so puts it back. A young girl worker named Cindy Lou approaches Gil and tries to talk/guilt trip him into buying the shirt. Niles tells her the shirt is ugly which makes Cindy cry but she says she’ll give a little bit off of the shirt then hands Gil some fabric of the same type of shirt from her pocket which Gil pockets. Cindy buys the shirt itself. Faeth looks for how much health potions cost in the company store and finds they are 1 gold piece each but politely declines because she doesn’t like that they look so good. Niles sneaks one of the health potions into Faeth’s pocket without her knowing. A security guard stops Niles and Faeth revealing the store has cameras and Niles plays it off like he was supposed to be testing the store security then quickly leaves the store. Gil and Veeto go to check out transportation. Faeth, Bobe, and Niles go looking for non-flashy health potions. The potions are at least 50 gold pieces, so there are no sales. The alchemist points Bobe to a mage’s guild in the darker side of town. At the stable, Gil asks for the transport. While the stable master is in the back, Gil tries to slap the ass of a fancy horse but he trips on horse shit. The stable master shows Gil and Veeto some nice horses and goats and a wagon with horses, with Veeto and Gil choosing the wagon. Faeth and Bobe go to the scroll shop and wakes up the shopkeeper who is partially deaf but Bobe writes a message down asking for the silence scroll. He very slowly goes to the back then comes back with the scroll but doesn’t know the price and goes to the back again with a price of 5000 gold and a price sheet. The party meets up and Bobe casts an illusion to have Gil’s shoes appear clean but still smell. Gil heads to a fountain to clean his shoes. The rest of the party heads back to the stables and sees Tea, who introduces himself to the others. The party realizes Niles is gone and also that the party has a Gil and a Tea. The party returns to the wagon and realizes that it has a really nice cover over top of it, a couple of picnic baskets with nice wine, provisions for the party, and provisions for the horses. The stable master says the price is 150 gold because Gil asked for the premium package, which causes Gil to deflate and sheepishly walk off. Gil returns and tries to sweet talk the stable master while Veeto tries to intimidate him. Gil remembers that the stable master, Greg, had a problem with his contract in the past and tries to insinuate the stable master messed up with their current contract. The stable master brings the contract and says he was correct. Gil tries to barter with Bobe to get her to use shadow magic to change the contract. Tea tries to barter with Greg and Greg says he wants a date with Cindy Lou, which Tea promises. Tea hands the fabric from Gil to Greg then asks Greg to go check the order again. Greg checks the order and finds another one that says the premium package is included. Gil insults Bobe by calling her a turtle then insincerely apologizes, but Bobe sees through him and laughs at him. The party leaves the town and begins traveling, staying at the occasional inn, and eventually make it to Westbridge. After getting some refreshments at Harvest Inn and Niles saying he wants to treat Tea like a house cat, the party learns the place they are looking for is referred to as “granny’s” and is out of town in the woods. Niles says the thieves guild knew about a card game, which is believed to be how Acquisitions Inc. acquired the property. The part learns Granny’s was used as an apple pie business and there is no official government or anyone who knows the current state of the property. Tea stays behind to ask the herbalist, Dorlara, for information on a tea the innkeeper gave him while the rest of the party starts going to Granny’s. Tea gets a quart of catnip tea and asks the herbalist about granny, with the herbalist referring him to Sandy who is a general store(The Broken Wheel’s) owner. Gil offends Sally, who physically moves him out of the way then closes the shop.

Gil blames Tea for Sally getting offended, thinking Tea winked at him to do good cop bad cop. The rest of the team intimidates Gil into apologizing to Sandy but she doesn’t answer the door when Gil knocks. The party goes to the Worm’s Wand Tavern to ask for information and refreshments, meeting Drazigon. Drazigon says that Sandy is the one who knew Granny best and recommends giving her a peace offering. Gil tries to bet tables he can guess what they’re drinking, gets denied at the first table, but then moves to a second one who accepts. The table asks him to make a song of “The Girl I Left Behind.” Gil flounders hard and says the woman he left behind “smelled of piss and vinegar.” Gil focuses his attention on the woman afterwards and oddly can’t discern any of her facial features. Gil tells the other party members about the woman’s face but the man and woman were already gone although the other party members hint at the woman being Cindy Lou. Drazigon brings over a drink, paid for by the woman. Drazigon brings another glass over with a very nice aroma. They return to the inn which they find Sandy in and Gil offers her a pitcher of water and glass then apologizes. They sleep in the inn then set off for Granny’s. The party arrives at Granny’s and meets a tree ent, Macintosh, who mentions “other tenants” who need to be evicted. The party sneaks around the property some and finds an unlocked door then Gil knocks on the door then runs. Patrolling goblins named 1,2, and 3 find the party. Tea offers to both form a union and bake pies for the goblins, who have a sweet tooth. Tea also charms some additional goblins inside. Tea checks the ovens and finds creatures inside all of them. The party inspects utensils they find which prompts feral goblins to attack. The party fights both the goblins and the goblins’ boss. 

Tea asks the friendly goblin what his name is and the goblin says “booger” then Tea questioned him more. Tea punches the goblin and accidentally kill him. Veeto wanders outside to bury the dead goblin and gets attacked by a sentient fungus with Faeth nearby. The rest of the party explores the rest of the property, finding some supplies as well as 2 parts of the pie recipe. Veeto gets to work making chill runes to drive the creatures in the ovens out. The party looks through granny’s spell book and finds heat and chill runes as well as talk with plants. The goblins are afraid of Veeto because they saw him dragging a dead goblin to the compost pile. Gil and Faeth go to check out the trees and heard giggling. Gil and Faeth find a dryad and play with it. Tea named the goblins from outside Terry, Gary, Perry,  Lerry, and Barry. The party returns to town then gets refreshments. Gil tries to prank Bobe but it backfires when Bobe gives Gil a headache, which leads to him getting taken outside and hosed down. A thief approached Niles and told him of a meeting but neglected to mention the place. Tea asks Sandy to make pies for the goblins but Sandy refuses. Sandy gives Tea cooking supplies asking for 2 apple pies as payment. Tea tells people in town to send a message to the goblins that they will have to wait for his return. Gil receives a present from Cindy Lou which ends up being a sealed jar with liquid inside that Gil cannot let go of. Tea opens the jar and finds pickled eggs mixed with piss and vinegar, which causes Gil to get sick. Gil tires to throw the jar but instead only splashes the mixture on himself. Gil reseals the jar and cleans himself then heads inside. 

The party officially become franchisees and Puyaz(I) joined the party then the party went to see Cindy Lou in the gift shop to ask about Gil’s piss and vinegar jar. The party then went to a temple to get the curse on Gil’s piss and vinegar jar disbanded. Gil messed up a magic trick, getting the priest to cackle. While Gil is in the temple the rest of us go shopping and get cooking supplies. Gil, Puyaz, and Tea ride in the same wagon, one person rides with the supplies, and the others take company transportation. 

The party got into town with the residents thinking they were dead with adventurers having said they found a wagon with their clothes. 2 members go off looking for Sandy but get kicked out of her shop by muscle dudes. Everybody else goes to the apple pie manufacturer and finds the goblins there. Tea sends the goblins to get their families from a goblin village so they can all work for us. The party unloads supplies from the wagons then meets a fairy named Alex who is there to manage the franchise and question expenses accrued while Gil was still an intern. The party goes back to town. Niles, Gil, and Puyaz hatch a plan to have Gil and Puyaz distract people while Niles sneaks in the back door of Sandy’s shop. It starts with Gil getting mysteriously magically muzzled, so Puyaz decides to just knock on the front door of the shop while Gil makes an illusion of a tiny animal. Niles gets shocked from the back door handle of the shop which makes noise, so Puyaz starts fighting Gil to draw attention. Puyaz and Gil get arrested and then attempted to be human trafficked in the middle of the night. Puyaz fights back some but it’s futile and both Gil and Puyaz get magical shackles put on them and put into a wagon. Tea runs like lightning, drop kicks the driver of the carriage, and then trades the carriage driver for Puyaz and Gil. Tea recognizes the symbol on the guards’ uniform as an opposing company. 

Unfortunately the guards get away. Puyaz and Gil are now wanted so the rest of the party sends them “the long way” to the Apple pie business.  

Gil and Puyaz go off into the forest.

The cart we use for travel crashes on the road to the Apple Pie business. Puyaz and Gil get lost in the woods using a coaster from the inn as a map. Puyaz finds his way back but Gil gets lost and finds Sandy who leads Gil back to HQ. Sandy says she was never missing but just goes on retreats sometimes. Sandy has the rights to all the inventory in the shop but not the shop itself. To avoid trouble, the group decides to sneak in at night through a hidden cellar entrance. Some of the party decides to stake out the shop and notices when all but 1 person leaves the shop then gets the rest of the group. A contract is negotiated that greatly benefits the party and allows them their own storage space. The group gets everything moved into the store front and then breaks into the store through the basement and the unlocked front door. The party started loading things into the cellar so they can take things out to the cart behind/to the side of the shop but are shortly interrupted by  people trying to gain access to the shop. Gil takes the appearance of Sandy and convinces them to go away, which they do after they realize the door is barred.

The party travels a lot on the way to Silverymoon. Eventually, a storm forces them into a mysterious inn where they find basically all of the people they’ve met before. Everyone gradually succumbs to magic that compels them to party, drink, and dance with everyone(including some who are enemies of the party) while Gil sleeps. Everyone eventually goes to sleep and wakes up to find pretty much everyone gone, with Gil having a bit of a sickness. The party goes upstairs and gets Gil an herb that will help him then turn their attention to a mysterious door on the lower level. Puyaz takes some alcohol, puts it on the door, then lights it with a candle which causes some of the party members to ignite, then the whole party wakes up in a camp. Out of session, Gil sheepishly admits to taking a potion that was supposed to buff him up, but insists it wasn’t the cause of the dream state. Puyaz holds him over the last spot the party’s animals defecated and tells him to talk.

Gil says he got the potion from a traveling gypsy. Gil got 2 potions, so Puyaz confiscates the other one and gives it to Faeth and Bobe who then hand it to Tea for inspection. Tea finds it’s a sauce for food. The party questions Gil on his mind tavern. Tea goes hunting and gets lost in the woods. Gil, Puyaz, and Veeto go into the woods to search for Tea, with Puyaz holding a rope tied to Gil’s waist like a dog. The party finds Tea’s tracks and follow them to finds Tea near a wagon but closer investigation reveals it to be illusion magic. The party keeps following the footprints until they find the footprints leading into a tree. Puyaz climbs over it then puts rope over the side Gil is on and ties one end to him and braces himself against the tree. Puyaz pulls Gil over but Gil loses his footing and falls on top of Puyaz. The party keeps following the trail and finds a place Tea slid down. Puyaz unties himself and attempts to push Gil down but accidentally falls down himself where he falls on Tea. Gil ties the rope to a tree then throws it down to Puyaz and Tea, which Puyaz and Tea climb up and return to camp. The party then finally reaches SilveryMoon. Gil tells everyone to meet that night at the Dancing Goat Tavern and Golden Oak Inn. Faeth goes to the tower of balance, tea sneaks off, Puyaz goes to the carpenter’s district to find someone to build an assassin’s tea cup contraption that will dispense poison or health depending on his arm position, Gil goes looking through public records and finds a conviction notice for Tea being caught for stealing with 3 others and finds a woman with Tea’s last name who died(presumably Tea’s mother), and Veeto hears a rumor of Tea being a traitor. Gil finds Tea talking with his mother and leaving her an offering at her grave. Gil tells Tea he may want to hold a vote to restructure the company. Puyaz ends up at Bradhan’s forge, where he finds dwarves arguing. The dwarves take a look at the blueprint and say they will make it for 15 gold to start with. Puyaz heads to the Dancing Goat and finds some gold but then gets hit by an electric zap which throws him into the wall across the way and robed figures with a Harper’s insignia cuff and bring him along. Puyaz gets thrown in a jail cell and tells the other inmates that he’s in for tax evasion, to their horror saying that he will be sent to the mines if he can’t pay. Naylon goes into the Dancing Goat and offers free rounds for everyone. A Tabaxi named Scamps comes into the Dancing Goat and talks to tea, telling Tea the king knows Tea is in town and believes Tea snitched on him. 

Khan, who is a new Dragonborn player character, meets Puyaz in prison. The rest of the party are at the Golden Oak Inn and Bobe wakes up to a letter from a contact saying that they want to meet as soon as possible about the job because things are getting dire. Faeth gets a letter saying Puyaz is getting held for thievery by the Harper’s. The party goes to the jail where the Harper’s offer 100 gold for Puyaz’s freedom. The party intimidates the Harper into letting Puyaz go and Puyaz tells the Harper’s that Khan is a friend, which convinces the Harper to let Khan go as well. Tea punches Puyaz and Puyaz takes a dive like a professional (American) soccer player, leaving Tea just staring at his hand in shock. Then the party goes to the bard’s college. The party meets the contact, where Tea and the contact seem to have history with Tea leaving. The contact says the party needs to get a small wooden box for him. Puyaz attempts to intimidate the contact but gets scared by him and runs off. Tea receives a note saying he will be watched and hunted because he sold people out to save his own skin. Bobe negotiates the contract with the contact then the party goes to the inn and talks about restructuring the company. The party agrees Kahn joined the company and also that Gil is the decisionist. 

Positions are assigned as follows:

Hoardsperson-Alex

Decisionist-Gil

Documancer-Bobe

Loremancer-Puyaz

Occulant-Veeto

Obviator-Faeth

The party feels a chill creep into the room. Gil gets the party to check him out because he’s being tormented by ghostly voices. Gil pulls tea to the side and gives him a letter from the company contact, Aimon Whispertwine. The letter says Aimon wants to put the past behind them, that he was the one who got Tea arrested, that Tea’s mother came to him for help saying that he has potential and Aimon feels responsible for Tea’s mother’s death, that Aimon feels responsible for Tea not being let out early, and he is proud of what Tea has become. Tea goes to Aimon’s place and finds him with a loxodon(elephant creature). Tea asks for a moment alone then tells Aimon that he was out of line for putting the blame on himself. Tea takes full responsibility himself. Aimon reveals he gave Tea false information and gave his house to the Harper’s. Tea says that his friends Lita and Chetin died but Aimon says they are not dead, just in jail for longer. Aimon says they hate him now. Aimon gives Tea a necklace from his mother but Tea refuses, thinking he doesn’t deserve it yet. Aimon reveals Tea refused to see his mother in prison, leading to her condition worsening. The party arrives and sits down at Aimon’s table and meets the Loxodon(a new player, Daro) who is always in fine clothes and has a red and white flaming fist insignia everywhere. The party dines then retreat to another room where Aimon tells details of the mission: the team is after a precious artifact that other adventurers have gone after but lost contact and never returned. Aimon says he lost contact with his home in the fae wild, he doesn’t know the state of the fae wild, and he is not receiving anything from the sending stone sent to his other house. Daro reveals that he is proficient with the arcane. Aimon says to not offend anyone. Daro says not to eat or drink anything in the Fae Wild and shows the way to the Fae Wild that’s in the city. Puyaz and Bobe get wisdom from the book that the vale may lead them to somewhere they don’t intend. The party knows that the vales always lead to the same area but they just don’t know where it is. Daro tells the party everything he knows about the fae wild, including not to smile at the fae. The party gets rations and Daro tells the party that there are many shapeshifters, so hunting may be very unwise. Tea leads the party to the Bucking Horse magic shop looking for an alchemy jug or jug of endless water. George, the shopkeeper, tries to get Faeth to pay 700 with a fake story but Tea convinces him down to 150. Veeto tries to empty the jug and it appears to not be magical. Tea threatens George and he slides over an actual magical jug. The party goes through the vale and all have experiences from their past but Bobe isn’t with the party on the other side.